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Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old yesterday

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Kewpie
Felis Australis

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Originally posted by lausey
Any idea what he is doing now?
Can't imagine, but he liked to live dangerously, and 35 years have gone by - he probably ended up in jail.

catfoodtim

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Russ
RHP Code Monkey

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Yep, I'll be needing a wobbly RAM pack for my brain soon too.

l

Milton Keynes, UK

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Originally posted by jimslyp69
10 PRINT "Jim is great"
20 GO TO 10
RUN
It was so easy in those days.

For example, in Delphi to do the same thing in a memo on a form:

unit Unit1;

interface

uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
Dialogs, StdCtrls;

type
TForm1 = class(TForm)
Memo1: TMemo;
procedure FormActivate(Sender: TObject);
private
{ Private declarations }
public
{ Public declarations }
end;

var
Form1: TForm1;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

procedure TForm1.FormActivate(Sender: TObject);
begin
repeat
Memo1.Lines.Add('Jim is great'😉;
until false;
end;

end.

EDIT: I did indent, but the forum strips those spaces out.

EDIT: This is excluding all the form and component data files, and, of course, all the required windows objects defined in the uses clause.

rc

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GEEKS!

l

Milton Keynes, UK

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
GEEKS!
NEO-LUDDITES!

Sicilian Sausage

In your face

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Yeah, go smash some looms Robbie.

rc

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Originally posted by jimslyp69
Yeah, go smash some looms Robbie.
how about i just kick your butt instead? or the organic part of you? 😛

C
Not Aleister

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
how about i just kick your butt instead? or the organic part of you? 😛
That's not very christian...

C
Not Aleister

Control room

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In related news, IE6 is 10 years old. Please help kill it ASAP. http://ie6countdown.com/

P
Mystic Meg

tinyurl.com/3sbbwd4

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I cranked that bad boy up to 16K memory. I became famous with my name scrolling on the screen over and over.

10 PRINT "PHLABIBIT ";
20 GOTO 10

Here is a web site where you can pretend to be as cool as Russ.

http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/level1/simulator.html

Sicilian Sausage

In your face

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
how about i just kick your butt instead? or the organic part of you? 😛
That's fine. I like it a bit rough.

D

St. Peter's

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Originally posted by lausey
10 FOR N=1 TO 3
20 PRINT "Ah, good old uncle Clive! I only ever had a Speccy. And I broke that 🙁 . Still, good days, what? Tempus fugit..."
30 PRINT
40 PRINT "Richard"
50 NEXT N
Ha! rec'd

Shallow Blue

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
GEEKS!
Why, thank you, sir. 'tis a compliment indeed.

Richard

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